Below, a season glimpse of Nolan Cressler's performance, including his tremendous final stretch in Ivy League play. In the final six games of the season, which included games against Princeton and Harvard, Cressler "put up" 1st Team All Ivy League stats, averaging 15.0 ppg, 5.8 rpg while shooting 49% from the floor. On the season, Cressler averaged 9.3 ppg and 3.7 rpg as a 6'4" wing in just 23.1 mpg while shooting efficiently-- 42.7 FG% and 40.3% from 3-pt range.

Below, links to our recap sections from each of Cornell's games during the 2012-2013 season.

Cornell RPI Watch: The RPI (Rating Percentage Index) is a measure of strength of schedule and how a team does against that schedule. It does not consider the margin of victory, but only whether or not a team won and where the game was played (home/away/neutral court). The formula is 25% team winning percentage (WP), 50% opponents' average winning percentage (OWP), and 25% opponents' opponents' average winning percentage (OOWP). (See: CollegeRPI.com for a further explanation of the formula.) The RPI may be the most influential factor in NCAA Tournament seeding. Cornell's RPI rank as of March 15 is No. 248 out of 344 total Division I teams. While neither the Ken Pomeroy or the Sagarin Rankings (USA Today) are used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee, the KenPom.com site ranks Cornell No. 266 in the nation, while the Sagarin Rankings (USA Today) have Cornell at No. 259. Both sites are predominantly used by fans and the media.

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Curious as to why you say Julian Jacobs received bad advice from those around him. He opted to go to the Pac-12 and a school with strong academics. They have some of the best facilities in college basketball and have sent way, way more players to the NBA than Cornell. He's getting a full ride, so that'll probably top whatever financial aid he was going to get. He'll still walk out with a solid education and no student loan debt if basketball doesn't work out. So how is that the bad choice? It's not like he choose a crappy academic schools over the Ivies that leave you shaking your head like with some kids

Both programs have struggled and are rebuilding. Sure, USC's coaching situation is in flux, but the point guard situation at USC is wide open after their prime recruit decommitted. That could change if a new coach comes in and brings a five star point guard to LA, but who knows how that shakes out.

I just don't see how you can criticize that choice or call advising a kid with Julian's potential "bad advice."

Um, no. I don't want Bill Carmody. His Princeton style is at best big fish small pond kinda thing where you can't succeed against real competition. You'll get an upset now and then but you can't ever really play with them; Donahue's style is more likely to get you playing with big boys than Princeton style is.

Where is Nat Graham tho? Not like there's any point in thinking about this; they're going to make us suffer the under Bill Courtney for at least another wasted year.

Doesn't Princeton still run the Princeton offense? They seem to do ok with it. Georgetown seems to win plenty with it. I'd give Carmody a little more credit than the above posters. Those offensive concepts are being used at all levels of basketball, including extensively in the NBA. He learned at the feet of the master - Pete Carril.

Princeton and its 4 Ivy losses and numerous non-conference losses is hardly dominant or special. I've never been all that impressed by Georgetown but they are admittedly doing pretty well this year so maybe they won't be upset in the first round of the tourney as has been typical over the last few years; however, I'm sure they have a huge talent & recruiting advantage compared to Ivy teams or Northwestern. I'm not saying Carmody wouldn't be better than Courtney -- anybody would. But I highly doubt he'll ever be great. He'll simply be respectable.